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Phoebe Farag Mikhail: Hospitality can help conquer loneliness
Community and connection are the antidotes to loneliness, says an educator and writer. Hospitality can help bring about that healing.
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At dinner table churches like Simple Church, simple meals and breadmaking facilitate deep conversations and communal friendship. Photo courtesy of Simple Church
Kendall Vanderslice: Feasting brings people together in community
The hope of the church lies in a commitment to feast with one another, writes the author of the new book, “We Will Feast.”
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Kathryn Lester-Bacon: House blessings help bear witness to real life
An associate pastor discovers the joy of accompanying people across actual thresholds with liturgical loving care.
The Rev. Dr. Heber M. Brown III has leveraged his church's garden into a multi-state network that connects black churches, black-owned farms, markets and consumers. Photos courtesy of Black Church Food Security Network
A network of black farmers and black churches delivers fresh food from soil to sanctuary
The Black Church Food Security Network promotes long-term economic empowerment among black farmers and congregations while addressing issues of health, food accessibility and self-determination.
Ulysses Burley III lights a candle during an interfaith prayer service during the 2016 International AIDS Conference. Photo courtesy of Ulysses Burley III
Ulysses Burley III: Christians have a pivotal role in eliminating HIV
We cannot cure HIV in the United States without people of faith standing up against the stigma, the founder of a faith and human rights organization, UBtheCure, says.
Earlier this year, Alfred Street Baptist Church encouraged people to participate in a churchwide fast called "Seek 2019." Image courtesy of Alfred Street Baptist Church
How -- and why -- one church organized its first 'corporate fast'
More than 4,000 members of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, committed to a new spiritual discipline earlier this year.
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A. Trevor Sutton: One-on-one accountability groups may be a solution to pastoral woes
When a Michigan pastor realized that his accountability group was too big, he came up with a new solution -- pairs.
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Ridgeway Addison: What's the role of a theologian in a nursing school?
Theological education is invaluable to those who suffer and care for the suffering, says a professor of theology who teaches nursing students.
Like runners, ministers benefit when they learn healthy habits that allow them to pause and experience restoration from concerns and fatigue and be refilled by the spirit of God. Bigstock/Dean Drobot
Mike Cope: Contemplation, relationships, emotional maturity and self-care are key to pastoral thriving
Theological training doesn’t offer ministers everything they need to flourish. Pastoral peer groups that develop additional competencies can fill the gap, writes a minister who is director of ministry outreach at Pepperdine University.
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Kate Rae Davis: Resilience and pastoral leadership
To acquire the resilience necessary to thrive in a rapidly changing world, pastors need people, practices and purpose, says the director of the Resilient Leaders Project.